Re: Worldcon AI scandal

On 17/05/2025 9:05 am, The True Doctor wrote:

On 16/05/2025 22:26, Keith F. Lynch wrote:

According to
https://seattlein2025.org/2025/04/30/statement-from-worldcon-chair-2/
the upcoming Worldcon has used ChatGPT to vet its program participants.
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I'm encouraged by the fact that there were more than a hundred
responses to that statement, and every one of them was negative.  Some
because ChatGPT is infamous for "hallucinating," i.e. making stuff up
out of thin air.  And some because ChatGPT was programmed using the
works of professional writers, incuding would-be Worldcon program

 Professional writers? You mean the woke ones that write like uneducated children?
 No one needs any writer's permission to read their work, not even ChatGPT. What the creators of ChatGPT should have done is paid the copyright holders to buy the texts to begin with at the current market price, about $2-$12 per eBook, rather than downloading them from sites PirateBay for nothing in order to train their LLM. Of course the woke perverts want more than the cover price for ChatGPT to read their works and that is totally unjustifiable. You can't charge readers a different price to buy your work depending on who they are.

Except a (human) reader might read the story a very few times whereas ChatGPT might use the work over and over and over again.
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Daniel70